Five birders thrash their local shrubbery for a whole year, to little real effect. One of them does it using a camel, but none of them is into cars....

Monday, 26 March 2012

All in a day's work

Having spent 9 back-breaking hours working away at this kind of thing on Saturday...

... I decided to "do an Oscar" on Sunday i.e. get up at stupid-o'clock and drive 200+ miles west to the border (in my case, just over it!) for a spot of wanton twitching. I'm not proud that I succumbed to the temptation of a cracking male Common Yellowthroat... though I'm quite pleased that I managed to play it very cool - it was found 5 weeks and 3 days earlier - and happier still that I managed scope views!

Made the most a day's carbon-twitching by taking in some other goodies afterwards: a smart and typically tame male Lesser Scaup, an educational Spotted Sandpiper at point blank range, (yet) a(nother) Great White Egret (bettered by the world's showiest Bittern, quite frankly!), all washed down with not 1 but 2 Long-billed Dowitchers!